Overview
- Suge Knight told TMZ on Wednesday that Afeni Shakur asked for Tupac to be cremated quickly and that friends and relatives rolled portions of his ashes into blunts and smoked them.
- Knight said he paid an alleged $1.2 million in cash to expedite the cremation after being told a funeral provider could not act that night.
- Knight said he did not take part in the smoking because he was on probation at the time and feared violating his release terms.
- Several members of Tupac’s circle have given similar accounts over the years saying the ritual matched Tupac’s stated wishes, while some family members say portions of his remains were released at sea and a gravesite exists in Lumberton, North Carolina.
- The new allegations have circulated during the Duane “Keefe D” Davis murder trial but remain unverified by independent reporting and differ in detail across sources, a fact that could affect how jurors and the public view testimony about events after Tupac’s 1996 death.